Organizer: Creative Commons China Mainland
Sponsor: the Ford Foundation
Coopration:Inter Art Center、Artintern、Hudong Online、MASH4
Exhibit Location: Inter Art Center, 798 Art Space, Beijing
Curator: Wu Hong
Advisor: Na Risong
Executive Curator: Zhu Handong

“Remix and Share” stems from the basic principle of CC: Share, Remix, Reuse – Legally. Remix, an approach of creation, includes a number of modern art phenomenon frequently observed in artistic creations, such as appropriation, conversion, etc. And Share, a voluntarily giving conduct, is actually an exchange from which the author may obtain more resources legally for his/her creation. The “Remix and Share” Exhibition promotes a public-interest-oriented spirit of share and cooperation. It intends to reveal the ecology of art featuring mutual integration and emulation, which is reflected by phenomenon known as “derivative”, “cross-borders” and “group authorship”. In this occasion, novel visional creations revealing the contemporary cultural integration and symbiosis from its own aspect are welcomed from artistic people in all fields.
In this December, Creative Commons China Mainland will present a CC licensed overall art exhibit on the theme of “remix & share” , with support from Inter Art Center, Artintern, Hudong Online, and MASH4. Artists are invited to submit their works from today onwards. A CC-licensed album for exhibited works, titled Remix and Share, will be distributed during the exhibition. There will also be a forum on this topic as well. Creative Commons China Mainland is working to help promote the international exchange and cooperation for Chinese contemporary art through various ways such as the global CC platform.

Submission Guidelines:
1. All individuals and organizations are welcomed to submit their works for the exhibition. The Organizers will also invite some renowned artist to present theirs artworks;
2. Please submit your picture in JPG form with width no more than 1000 pixels, and name it with your own name and its title, media, and size. Attach it with a description and your resume, and your contact information: name, address, telephone and e-mail;
3. For video works, please submit the weblink, or submit on discs, which will not be returned whether accepted or not;
4. The Organizers will have experts to review the submitted works, and will afterwards inform the artists to submit printing information for the album, along with their contact information. Artists whose works have not been accepted will not be specially informed. A list of accepted artist will be announced by the beginning of December, 2009 along with the exhibition’s dates and location;
5. All works exhibited shall be CC-licensed, and the submission of works shall be accompanied with such licenses (see attached). Please do not submit any non-CC-licensed works. For details of Creative Commons licenses, please refer to below introductions or consult with Creative Commons China Mainland;
6. The Exhibition is free for charge;
7. A CC-licensed album of the exhibited works will be distributed on the opening ceremony. Each artist will get two copies as gift;
8. The expiry date of submission is November 20, 2009.

Contact Information :
E-mail: ccremix@cn.creativecommons.org
Mailing address: Inter Art Center, Sevenstar Main Street 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing (with remarks “Remix & Share Exhibition” )
Telephone: 010-59789029
Website: http://cn.creativecommons.org/
Contacts: Zhu Handong, 13601136018 (Mobile Phone) and He Xiaolin, 13466687857 (Mobile Phone)

On September 23, 2009, the Copyright Management Team from Digital Resources Department of National Library of China (NLC) has made the first work meeting with CC China in Mingde Building, Renmin University of China (RUC). The participants include: 8 librarians, including team lead Mr. Li Huawei, of the NLC Team; Professor Wang Chunyan from Law School of RUC, CC China Project Manager Zhu Handong and one of the project team members, Xu Jianping. They have had successful discussion on the protection and exploitation of digital resources, and on the future cooperation between NLC Digital Resources Dept and CC China to promote legitimate distribution and share of digital resources.

The meeting was started at 2:30 p.m., when Zhu Handong made an introduction to the visiting team on CC Project and its promotion in China Mainland. Then Professor Wang Chunyan gave a speech comparing differences between various approaches of copyright licenses: the open CC Licenses and the traditional means; and analyzed problems as experienced by CC China during the licenses’ localization and the solutions thereto.

Afterwards, Li Huawei, the lead of NLC Copyright Mgmt Team, introduced the status of digital copyright management in NLC, and shared their copyright-protected resources and future directions with CC China project team.

The parties then discussed approaches and targets of their future cooperation.

Artistic Director: Wu Hong

Exhibition Planner: Sheng Jingdong

Assistant of Exhibition Planner: Coral·Lu

Host: Artintern.net, CC China Mainland

If you draw, come to show how to play mud;

If you make calligraphy, come to show how to play instruments;

The simplest way is to print your work on T-shirt, bags, or tea cups;

You could also make your work into toys, variable products, such as a medal;

Please do not think the following instructions as the only choice,

Open your mind and fresh your imagination, make it fun and fresh.

Even if the idea is hard to be realized,

Join us with the project like Vinci’s blueprint.

Anyway, join us in any form, any methods;

Please send us your project in electrical form before August;

We will select 100 fabulous artists’ works, no matter famous or not, to make a 16-inch picture album. In October, an exhibition, in the way of a mini shopping-mall, would be held in one 798 gallery in Beijing. And 2 free copies of the album would be sent to the exhibition artists.

Contact details: jingdongcehua@yahoo.com.cn

Mobile: 13910820528

An International Symposium At the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing

An international symposium on Common Use Licensing for Scientific Literature and data was held on March 25, 2009 in Beijing. The idea for the symposium was developed by Creative Commons China Mainland. The symposium was co-hosted by the National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), the U.S. National Committee for CODATA of the National Academy of Science, and Creative Commons China Mainland.

This one-day symposium reviewed the rationale, practice, and issues associated with the application of Creative Commons/Science Commons “common use” licenses to scientific literature and data in government and academia. The event also explored the possible implementation of these licenses for publicly funded scientific literature and data in China.

The symposium was designed to provide a basic introduction on the subject of Creative Commons licensing to members of the scientific literature and data community. This information was designed to benefit the interests of both the science policy and the science research communities.

There was a wide array of speakers participating in the symposium, both from the PRC and from abroad, representing various institutes and constituencies. Included among them were Columbia University, Queensland University of Technology Law School, Mozilla Online China, Renmin University of China Law School, the National Research Council of the U.S., Science Commons, the National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the University of Maine, the Computer Network Information Center of CAS, and the Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resource Research of CAS.

The event brought together a large group of some 200 attendees from several universities, research institutes, governmental agencies, libraries, and the Internet sector.

Both the speakers and the participants at the symposium focused on the use of Creative Commons Licensing. Attendees from the various institutes and organizations expressed great interest in adopting CC for their databases and other scientific repositories. The National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Science (NSL), for example, has now created a platform , the Knowledge Repository of National Science Library, CAS( http://ir.las.ac.cn/; http://ir.las.ac.cn/guiter?id=5 ), to encourage scientists and authors adopt CC licenses while archiving their works on the NSL’s Knowledge Repository.

More than 150 participants gathered at the International Academic Lecture Hall at the Renmin University of China Law School on July 4, 2009. What attracted them was the Forum on Cultural Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the first ever CC interactive event on the subject of Traditional Chinese Culture in China Mainland. This was the first forum in a planned series on Knowledge Sharing and Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage initiated by Creative Commons China Mainland and the Kongbohua TCM School.

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The first Chinese book released under a local CC license (CC BY-NC-ND China Mainland) was made available on July 4, 2009 at the Forum on Cultural Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) held at Renmin University of China Law School. This was the first forum under the series on Knowledge Sharing and Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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One of the highlights in the Sapporo Convention Center during the 2008 iSummit was the exhibit of more than one hundred photographs, part of the CC China Mainland photography contest held in China in 2007. All the photos, from both amateur and professional photographers, were licensed under the China Mainland version of the Creative Commons licenses.

This exhibition is unique in bringing together the works of grass roots and professional photographers in China. They not only are documenting the social, human and daily lives of the Chinese people, they are also joining forces in supporting the ideals of open access, as promoted by Creative Commons.

This exhibit is particularly important in reflecting some of the creative changes which have taken place in the new China. From the 1950’s to the 1980’s, Chinese photography was used mainly as a political instrument of the government. So China has not really had a visual history of its ordinary people until recently.

This unique collection of CC licensed Chinese photography has received wide press coverage in China. Examples include stories on China’s leading web site for professional photographers, CPhoto, the official site of the China Photographers Association, China Photograph Online, the FotoMen site, Art News, and China Visual.

This photo exhibition consists of two parts. The first part is made up of the best submissions to the CC-licensed photographic works contest held in 2007. It was, jointly sponsored by CC China Mainland and Nphoto.net.

The majority of these works beautifully capture the social, cultural, and scenic flavor of contemporary China, as rendered in the eloquent portraits of its people. Coming from diverse communities of Chinese photography amateurs on the mainland, these photographs bear witness to the trials, tribulations and celebrations of the times, catching the pulse of Chinese society in a visual language which embodies the grass roots spirit of the people.

The second part of the exhibition includes the works of the ten most important  professional Chinese photographers who chose to release  their works under the  China Mainland version of the CC licenses.  Like their amateur counterparts, these photographers also bore testimony to the exciting transformations of Chinese society.

Every image in this collection tells the story of different social and cultural groups in the various regions of China. As pioneers who led a significant movement in the history of Chinese photography, the contributions of these photographers do not stop at just creating images. More importantly, these photographs have awakened a sense of social conscience for the Chinese people and opened up whole new horizons for their successors.

We are delighted that visitors to the exhibit expressed their appreciation for the photographs, as evidenced by these wonderful comments from our visitor guest book:

A beautiful exhibition!    
Congratulations on such a successful competition.
The work is very inspiring for the iCommons community.
What a wonderful space, full of very special images.
Thank you for amazing photos! I love them.
Great pictures!
Stunning photos that capture the spirit and lives of people in China.
Great photos!

This exhibit is here at the suggestion of Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito. The curator for the exhibit is Xiaobo Chen. The members of the CC China Mainland team who mounted the exhibit are Handong Zhu, Yi Zheng, and Song Shi. They had the very difficult task of very carefully boxing up more than one hundred photos, making sure they survived the flight from Beijing, and then guiding them through Japanese customs! Support for this exhibition was also provided by CC China Mainland Advisory Board members Professor Jing Wang and Dr. Stewart Cheifet. The entire project was created and managed by Professor Chunyan Wang, Project Lead for CC China Mainland. Funding for the exhibit was provided by the Ford Foundation.

This is a compilation of works from participants of Mini Midi 2008.

Including live recordings, field recordings and works exclusively for this compilation.

It was produced by Creative Commons China Mainland and Sub Jam/KwanYin Records. Will be released under license of “Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike”.free mp3 will be available on this site soon.

the release conference will be hold on June 17th, 2008 at 2Kolegas Bar.

artists: Wang Fan + 718, Li Tieqiao, Li Zenghui, Fujui Wang, MiguelSantos, Andy Guhl, 10, The Wedding Beast, Xiao He, Hong Qile,TronOrchestra+SAM2+xinix+VacuumCar’Ori+ShiYang+ Yan Jun

From December 17 to 18, 2007, the International Conference on Information Technology & Social Responsibility took place in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

The conference, jointly organized by CUHK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Creative Commons China Mainland, was hosted by the School of Journalism and Communication of CUHK. Over thirty experts, scholars and professionals from America, Britain, Canada, Australia, China Mainland, and Hong Kong attended this event.

Former president of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Kenneth Young, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a welcome speech. During the conference, Professor Clement Y. K. So, Dean of Journalism and Communication School, and Professors Joseph M. Chan, Eric K. W. Ma and Kenneth W. Y. Leung presided over different sessions of the meeting. The attendees delivered keynote speeches and had in-depth discussions on the following topics: The Future and Present of Information Society; Citizens’ Responsibilities and the Digital Media; Pursuing Common Interests: Public Domain in Digital World and Intellectual Property in Politics; State Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and the Internet. They promoted their perspectives on each issue and reached broad consensus with the audience.

During the Conference, Chairperson of Advisory Board of CC China Mainland, Professor Jing Wang from MIT delivered a speech “Creative Commons for the Socially Marginalized? Model Building for a Developing Country”; Board member Professor Hal Abelson from MIT delivered a speech entitled “The Responsibility of the University in the Age of the Information Commons”; and Project Lead of Creative Commons China Mainland, Professor Wang Chunyan presented her speech “Some Rights Reserved: A Creative Commons Approach to Copyright in the Information Age”. Those speeches aroused great interest among the audience and provided them a comprehensive understanding of Creative Commons and its development in China Mainland. All three speeches won much attention and support from the conference participants.